Over the course of my life, I have engaged in deep thought about engineering, economic and educational processes; yet analytical thinking...

This blog is very long, but I hope it is helpful to teachers, administrators and educational advocates. Due to its length, I have also...

Let’s begin our short chat with the reality of the professional world.  When I was in my sixth year of teaching in 2001, my principal...

Professional frustration occurs in every job to varying degrees; however, I have never experienced the same levels of isolated...

Several decades ago, I attended an August meeting with the associate superintendent of elementary schools in a large urban school...

There is a companion white paper to this blog that includes an executive summary. An interested educator may find that short...

Over the last four decades, I have come to realize that a myriad of qualitative evaluations are processed in real time during job...

In 2011, Senate Bill (SB) 6 was signed into law, and it permitted Texas school district administrators the freedom to choose their own...

My wife and I just finished walking our third ‘El Camino’ in Spain three weeks ago. There are two major walking routes that stretch from...

Numeracy gaps and literacy gaps are the two main academic hurdles in elementary schools, especially Title 1 campuses. Moreover, the...

If there is one assumed professional trait in public education, it is ‘expertise.’ Now, it is rarely spouted from within the teacher...

Learning - any type of human learning - requires consistent practice and reflection to achieve proficiency at a given task. There must...

The vast majority of states have moved toward digital standardized testing. They have done this for a couple reasons. First, MONEY! It...

I am not a big volleyball fan. But, throughout my life, I played a lot of different sports and activities including volleyball. Last...

On July 20th, 1969, mankind demonstrated the ability to place men on the Moon and bring them safely back to Earth. This space journey is...

Beginning in third grade, every Tuesday night, my mother would load my two brothers and me in the family car and drive us to the city...

I find the title of this blog interesting because as humans – I would hope that when folks perform poorly at some manageable task or...

Organizing large groups of people to efficiently complete any complex human task is challenging. In antiquity, for example, the Giza...

Every person, conscious of the fact or not, strives for ‘control’ of events in their immediate sphere of influence. ‘Control’ affords...

Due to age and perspective, adults immediately recognize that the mastery of a second language is an incredibly pragmatic and useful...